Range Axiety
 

Range Anxiety

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We gassed up the Ford stealth G-4 today and did well on the last mpg run of 270.6 miles. We used 13.703 gallons of gas for a average of 19.747 mpg. The truck bases miles to empty on the last run, so the read out was 711 miles until empty. Plus 700 mile range read outs are rare. I got one block until I noticed this, so I took a pic of the dash at a red light. We had some errand to run in town so we were laughing by the time we left town for home, because the range had dropped to 699 miles. We figure that is where the "Range Anxiety" begins to kick in.

I went over 100 miles past the fuel warning light in the Prius and climbed the pass in Mt. hood, passing by the expensive gas stations out of principle. My math said we could make it knowing the MPG readout is ~2 MPG optimistic.

The engine shuts off at 10.3 gallons, and I pumped 10.1 into the tank. I had perhaps another 10 miles left in gas and another 8 in EV range.

Normally it wouldn't make me nervous, but I had my wife and her friend with me. That and I fought a strong headwind the last 100 miles.

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We fueled up in Las Cruces, NM on Thursday afternoon then went home. The following morning (Friday) we drove to Tucson, AZ. After lunch in Tucson we gassed up before heading back to Starizona to pick up my now fixed CEG Mount.

This highest ever reading on range after a fill up was from this net 22.5 MPG of the trip. The truck likes going west on this leg of this trip. Not so much going home.

"Welcome to Tucson, Arizona!"